The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1887-10-19
ANOTHER. RAILROAD HORROR.
A Freight Train on the Chicago & Atlantic
Railway Crashes Into a Passenger
Train--Between Fifty and Sixty
Persons Killed and
Injured.

CHICAGO October IL. A terrible acci-
dent occurred on the Chicago & Atlantic
railway this morning near Kouts, Ind, in
which the first report stated that twenty
five people were killed and many injured.
A fast freight ran into the end of pas
senger train, telescoping two coaches. AS
nearly as could be learned at the outset
the fated train was a passenger express
from the east, due in Chicago this morn
ing. A relief expedition was quickly and
secretly organized by the railroad officials
here, and dispatched to the scene, while
other help was to be hurried forward as
soon as possible. Two passenger trains
arrive in Chicago early in the morning
from the east over the Chicago & Atlantic
and it was impossible to readily learn
which was involved, the officials of the
company refusing the slightest scrap of
information. 1t was judged the horror
occurred between and 6 o'clock this
morning.
A special to the News from Hammond,
Ind, says: The passenger train east
bound on the Chicago & Atlantic railway,
leaving here at 8:15 last night, broke down
at Kouts station. The engine started
ahead, leaving the train, and stopped for
water at Slate Ditch. The engine got on
the ''center," and could not get back to
the train. A stock train following, run
ming on special time, crashed into the
sleeper, telescoping the sleeper and four
| coaches, and SO far fourteen bodies have
been taken from the wreck. A doctor
from Huntington, Ind, is the only pas
senger Identified the rest being burned
beyond recognition. Twenty-Five or thirty
are wounded. The engineer and firemen
on the stock train were wounded, and are
not expected to live.
A special to the Evening Journal from
North Judson, Ind, says: Another
Chatsworth railroad horror occurred on
the Chicago & Atlantic railway this morn
ing, sixty miles east OF Chicago, at Kouts
station. Seventeen passengers were killed
and burned up in the wreck, and from
twenty to thirty were more or less injur-
ed. A heavy fresh meat train telescoped
the evening accommodation train. The
New York express, which leaves Chicago
at TAO p. m, with one baggage car, two
coaches and one sleeper, had stopped at
water tank for water about one mile west
Of Kouts, and freight train following
crashed into the sleeper, telescoping and
burning up the entire passenger train as
above stated. VIM. Perry, auditor Of this
stark county, and wife and child were
victims Of the terrible fire, which broke
out almost Immediately after the freight
train crashed among the passengers. Not
a particle of their bodies we're rescued
from the flames. The entire responsibility
appears to rest on the engineer of the
freight train.
All efforts to obtain information from
Huntington as to the names of the killed
and wounded have up to this hour been
unavailing. Chicago & Atlantic railroad
officials, who went there with the coroner
to-day, seem to have complete possession
of all sources Of information on this point
and they refuse positively to make known
the names of the victims of the disaster.
The killed and wounded were taken from
the scene of the wreck to Huntington
early this afternoon, accompanied by the
coroner.